Recap: A Terrible Sinking Feeling – Turkey’s Course Set for Turmoil
8 March 2017 – London, UK by Chris Murray As I watch the only secular democratic state of the Middle East plunge headlong into the abyss I am left with…
Book Watch: Churchill, Roosevelt & Company: Studies in Character and Statecraft
Review by Chris Murray 12 February 2017 – London, UK Churchill, Roosevelt & Company: Studies in Character and Statecraft By Lewis E. Lehrman; Rowman & Littlefield Publishing, 2017. GBP £19.95…
Book Watch: Violence as a Generative Force: Identity, Nationalism, and Memory in a Balkan Community
Review by Chris Murray 24 January 2017 – London, UK Violence as a Generative Force: Identity, Nationalism, and Memory in a Balkan Community By Max Bergholz; Cornell University Press, 2016.…
Book Watch: Charlie Foxtrot: Fixing Defence Procurement in Canada
Review by Chris Murray 9 January 2017 – London, UK Charlie Foxtrot: Fixing Defence Procurement in Canada By Kim Richard Nossal; Dundurn, 2016. CDN $19.99 ISBN-10: 1459736753 ISBN-13: 978-1459736757 It…
Turkey’s Troublesome Times Continuing with No End in Sight
20 December 2016 – London, UK by Chris Murray It feels like only moments ago that Defence Report was analysing the attempted coup in Turkey. July does not feel a…
Book Watch: All Behind You, Winston: Churchill’s Great Coalition 1940-45
Review by Chris Murray 30 November 2016 – London, UK All Behind You, Winston: Churchill’s Great Coalition 1940-45 By Roger Hermiston; Aurum Press, 2016. GBP £20.00 ISBN-10: 1781313318 ISBN-13: 978-1781313312…
The Bear in the Mountains: Russia’s Balkan Exercise
2 November 2016 – London, UK by Chris Murray On 31 October, the Associated Press reported that Russia will be conducting joint exercises in Serbia with local Serbian and Belarusian…
Book Watch: How Everything Became War and the Military Became Everything: Tales from the Pentagon
Review by Chris Murray 10 October 2016 – London, UK How Everything Became War and the Military Became Everything: Tales from the Pentagon By Rosa Brooks; Simon & Schuster, 2016.…
Book Watch: Irregular War: ISIS and the New Threat from the Margins
Review by Chris Murray 26 July 2016, Kingston, CA Irregular War: ISIS and the New Threat from the Margins By Paul Rogers; I.B.Tauris, 2016. USD 29.95 ISBN-10: 1784534889 ISBN-13: 978-1784534882…
What Happened in Turkey
25 July 2016, Kingston, CA by Chris Murray The world was caught surprised by the attempted coup in Turkey. While Turkey has had relatively frequent interaction with coups since the…